The Attainment Challenge

Project: The Attainment Challenge

The Scottish Council of Deans of Education (SCDE) Attainment Challenge Project was a three-year Scottish Government funded research programme involving representatives of eight of the institutions providing initial teacher education (ITE) across Scotland. Its broad aim was to research how the sector might better prepare early career teachers (understood as final year ITE and probationer year) to work more effectively to improve literacy and numeracy attainment and health and wellbeing outcomes in schools serving pupils from Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) 1-40 backgrounds. The UHI study, led by Professor Morag Redford and investigated by Mark Lindley-Highfield, explored the Effective Use of Evidence by Early Career Teachers in Rural Settings.

£46,000 research income